Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Less than an hour of BAD-style promo fun brings us excerpts from Nic Roeg and The Cotton Club , steals from James Bond and Sergio Leone , plus a rumble on the Westway directed by Jim Jarmusch .
2 ‘ The sheer speed and increased accuracy of electronic data transfer allows us and centres to make better use of time — and reduces errors .
3 The easy cut of this trouser suit makes it comfortable enough for office or weekend wear .
4 The latest version of this desktop planetarium allows you to view the Night Sky 's Constellations and deep sky objects from any place at any time .
5 A new computer room will be constructed if the final configuration of central processing equipment requires it .
6 This range of white worm size makes it unnecessary to culture either microworm or grindal worm .
7 As knowledge of basic platelet metabolism increases it will be more easy to identify platelet abnormalities and their pathogenesis in diabetes mellitus .
8 In order to measure the indirect employment generated as a result of Scotch Whisky industry purchases it is necessary to have a more detailed compositional breakdown of the supplier inputs shown in Table 3.1 and to trace back through the economy the whole chain of –backward ’ linkages .
9 In the eyes of good practitioners self-control allows them to find a path around conflict .
10 The Wilkins Micawber of 11 Downing street tells us to wait and see .
11 But readers should not be discouraged because they would miss Ted Leyenaar 's essay on the ball game of Mexico , which the Geneva volume only mentions in passing and about which Marcia Castro Leal in The Art of Ancient Mexico catalogue informs us that many of the previously held ideas may now be ‘ totally discredited ’ .
12 Engines and transmissions are usually made by car firms themselves , but with larger production runs than for cars , so the small scale of overseas car output makes it still sensible to import most of these things from Japan .
13 Look out , all those companies that are eagerly playing in the digital cellular telephony market with Time Division Multiple Access technology : the King of Prussia , Pennsylvania-based InterDigital Patents Corp unit of InterDigital Communications Corp says it has engaged the law firm of Dickstein Shapiro & Morin to represent it in connection with possible patent infringement litigation to enforce its portfolio of 32 US patents on the technology .
14 ‘ The scrapping of special car tax enables us to stay competitive in the quality car market . ’
15 But for large data manipulation exercises we have to use Ark , ’ says Mr Round .
16 A specialist creative package like Factual Design Painter allows you greater control over the way the brushes , pens and ‘ comms ’ operate , as you can see from the Brush Behaviour palette at the bottom left corner
17 At the very least this theory about post-natal depressions shows it 's not that simple , the mother has a self-interest as well as the offspring and our modern insight into parental investment theory shows us that we have to take every individual 's self-interest seriously we 're not committing th the , the crude errors of group selectionism and saying you know mothers exist for the benefit of society to have children , they should put up with it .
18 Soldiering on with lower back pain makes it hard not to be preoccupied .
19 You will see from the lists above that modem education brings us up from early childhood to use our left brains in preference to our right brains .
20 In areas with long nursery waiting lists it has been usual for governors to establish admission panels drawn from their own members .
21 In the Osma system , a small hole in each pipe connector tells you when you have pushed the pipe in far enough to allow for expansion : 10mm is normally allowed .
22 This , of course , is a generalisation ; you can withdraw a powerful kick where the opponent has impaled himself on it , because in this instance recoil gives you the required stability .
23 In this book space prevents us from paying more than cursory attention to the whole area of upper-world crime .
24 Inside , Virgin 's pilots are landing on runway twenty seven at Heathrow , in the simulator they can take off and land as often as they like at this the world 's busiest airport , but in real life Virgin says it has to fight for slots to take off and land at the times to suit business travellers , it blames B A. B A says it does n't allocate slots or monopolize Heathrow Airport .
25 ‘ The reason for this is just that in these matters custom makes us reason and judge so quickly , or rather we recall the judgments previously made about similar things ; and thus we fail to distinguish the difference between these operations and a simple sense perception ’ .
26 In any case Campion tells us that there exists in the archives of Norwegian Radio a preferable version of the Rhapsody conducted by Tuxen that ought to be issued — as should other hidden treasures in radio and other archives to which Campion refers .
27 In addition , the introduction to each Resource Book gives you vital background knowledge about the concepts and methodology underlying each technique .
28 Whilst there is broad agreement on individual risk guideline figures it is difficult to do the same for societal risk .
29 The government 's accent on the removal of surplus places and on open admissions policy makes it likely , however , that the total number of schools will decline .
30 FIFTEEN dentists ' practices are to consider resigning from the NHS over proposed government funding cuts they fear could lead to bankruptcy .
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